#482 Maggie Freleng with Eddie Ramirez

Wrongful Conviction

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True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In the winter of 1995, Joyce Dennis was killed during her closing shift at a laundromat in North Philadelphia, PA. Police then rounded up a group of teenagers and, over the course of several months, got them to implicate two of their friends for the crime, including Eddie Ramirez. Despite the fact that no physical evidence tied him to the murder scene, Eddie would spend 27 years in prison for a crime he’s always maintained he did not commit.

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0:00.0	Back in the 90s the 90s the crime and murder rate in Philadelphia was at its peak.
0:09.2	There were more than 500 murders in 1990 and the rate remained above 400 through
0:16.2	1997. A lot of this crime happened in North Philadelphia in areas notorious for sex work and where open air drug markets
0:25.8	thrived. I've reported on and spoken to people who lived and grew up in the
0:31.0	area for years. People who've been punished by a system hell-bent
0:36.5	on jailing its way out of social problems like poverty, addiction, and mental health.
0:43.0	Most of these people were young men and boys of color
0:46.0	considered quote super predators by politicians of the time
0:50.0	like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.
0:52.0	They are not just gangs of kids anymore. like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden.
0:52.5	They are not just gangs of kids anymore.
0:55.0	They are often the kinds of kids that are called super predators.
0:58.7	No conscience, no empathy.
1:00.8	Without parents, without supervision, without any structure, without any
1:06.0	conscience developing. One of those boys was David Louise Suave Gonzales.
1:11.9	Suave grew up in prison, but he was given a chance to prove he was more than the mistake
1:17.6	that landed him behind bars.
1:20.1	While doing time, Suave earned degrees and created enrichment programs aimed at things like helping men behind bars with kids become better fathers.
1:29.0	Throughout his years of mentorship,
1:31.0	Swave met a young man named Eddie Ramirez, also from North Philadelphia.
1:35.8	I remember when he came to the prison, he came looking for me because he had heard of me
1:40.7	in another prison. I took him under the wing and you know I became his
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